Tom from mostynwebsolutions.com has created an ASP YUI Image Uploader backend. Direct Download: YuiExample.zip.
The YUI Image Upload posts on this site contain details on implementing the front end and editor if you’re just getting into this.
Thanks Tom.
So a while back we purchased a JVC Everio HD camcorder. I’ll skip the commentary on whether or not that is a good idea. For me, the relevant issue is: how am I supposed to copy the MTS (AVCHD H.264) encoded files to my mac and get them in a format that I can import into iMovie and edit.
Here are a few things I discovered on my journey the last few months:
Hope this helps someone. Skip all those ffmpeg front-end rip off programs that want to charge you money. They are GPL violating programs whose owners are attempting to make a quick buck off something you can (and should be able to) do for free.
Do you like gitk? I find it almost invaluable in merging, branching, looking at old revisions, diffs, etc. I find it annoying that git log is hard to glean the same information. I searched a round a bit and found that git log is quite configurable as to what it outputs. Here is a simple alias that outputs the log with some of the data you’d find by viewing gitk.
git config alias.logk 'log --graph --pretty=format:"%h %ae: %s" --decorate --abbrev-commit'
You can add –global so you don’t have to make a logk alias for every repository.
You can also read the man page for “git log” and change the format to suite your liking.
One of the nice things about git, is the ability to work in a distributed manor. Instead of having to have a central repository for your source code, you can create a copy of your repository and do work, while sharing the changes, on any number of machines. Often, when a few developers share code, they still use git with a central repository. There isn’t anything wrong with this, but sometimes, I find myself wanting to set something like this when I only want to share code between a couple computers where I am the only developer. In this case, I don’t need 3 copies of the code. I want to be able to push or pull changes between each of the machines without having to push to a 3rd repository.
So, you might try the following steps:
# on the 1st machine
> git init .
> # make some code changes
> git add ...
> git commit
# 2nd machine
> git clone <1st machine ref>
> # make some changes
> git commit
> git push # here is the problem
When you push from the 2nd machine to the 1st, the HEAD on the 1st machine is updated. The problem is that your working copy is NOT updated. To fix this, there are two solutions.
Mediocre, recover from doing the push solution:
# warning, the following will destroy any local changes you had made.
> git reset --hard HEAD
If you had made changes on the 1st machine and forgot to commit them, you’d need to stash them, check out to a branch, or whatever.
Better way, avoid the reset all together
# on the 2nd machine
> git push origin master:refs/heads/tmp_branch_name
# on the 1st machine
> git merge tmp_branch_name
> git branch -d tmp_branch_name
Another solution would be to add a remote on the 1st machine that points to the 2nd machine. Then each machine can just pull from the other rather than doing any pushes at all.
Have fun.
So I left all these servers running gentoo a couple years ago. Now, after all this time (and uptime!), I want to install something.
Error:
emerge -av portage
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-lang/python-2.5" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 (masked by: required EAPI -1, supported EAPI 0)
- dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 (masked by: required EAPI -2, supported EAPI 0)
- dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 (masked by: required EAPI -2, supported EAPI 0)
- dev-lang/python-2.6.4 (masked by: required EAPI -2, supported EAPI 0)
- dev-lang/python-3.1.1-r1 (masked by: required EAPI -2, supported EAPI 0)
- dev-lang/python-2.6.3 (masked by: required EAPI -2, supported EAPI 0)
For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13" [ebuild])
Hm. Yeah, I’m way out of date.
Solution: I found other sites that talked about forcing a python/portage install but I that sounded a little harsh. Instead, I found a snapshot of portage-2008.0 and replaced my /usr/portage with the contents of that.
cd /usr
rm -rf portage # or mv portage xxx
wget http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/releases/snapshots/2008.0/portage-2008.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjpf portage-2008.0.tar.bz2
cd /etc/
rm make.profile
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile
emerge -av portage
That took me to portage-2.1.4.4.
From there, I can now go back to current 10.0 portage and emerge -av portage to get up to the current portage state.
Yeah, I really didn’t want to do a re-install.
I hate it when I download a source archive, uncompress it, and find that instead of creating a package directory, with the contents of the archive, the archive was created with a bunch of files at the root directory. Suppose I have a downloads directory with lots of archives. After I uncompress this new archive, I now have a bunch of archive files and a bunch of project specific files all in the same directory. Yuck.
> cd downloads
> tar -xzf latestdownload.tar.gz
> # yuck, stupid package contents in my downloads directory.
Yeah, Yeah, I know I could have listed the package contents (tar -tzf ..) and found that I needed to create a directory first but I’m lazy. So the mess is there. Now to clean it up:
> tar -tzf latestdownload.tar.gz | xargs rm -rf
There. Files gone. You can do the same thing with unzip -t for zip archives.
